Among the events said to have taken place on Lag b’Omer is the revelation of the Zohar, a book revealing the secrets of Kabbalah, by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a disciple of Rabbi Akiva who is buried on Mount Meron. More ▸

Since we have been counting the Omer — a biblical measure of barley that was brought as an offering to the Temple — each evening from the second night of Passover, what better way to mark the coming holiday than by downing a barley beverage, cold and carbonated? More ▸